One of the best ways in which you can drive traffic to your blog is to showcase your
talents on other websites.
In particular, if you can find a way to demonstrate to others that you are capable of
providing high-quality blog posts, there’s a very good chance they’ll follow you back
to your blog and subsequently subscribe to your RSS feed.
It’s obvious then, that a good way to attract more visitors, commenters, and
subscribers on your blog is to borrow someone else’s blog (and their user base).
In the past, this wasn’t an easy thing to do, but today, it has become quite popular. I
suggest that you use the following 3 strategies to become a guest blogger.
Strategy #1: Pitch to High-Profile Bloggers
Many site owners and bloggers alike want good content. The problem is that good
content is usually either time-consuming or quite expensive for them to produce.
Thus, they face a trade-off when it comes to providing high-quality content: they can
either update the blog less frequently than they would like; or they can update it
regularly, but they'lldo so at a cost (perhaps by either not doing other things or
paying someone to update it).
This is where YOU come in.
You can offer to provide a completely free guest blog entry, as long as you are able
to list yourself as the “guest blogger”. Additionally, if possible, see if you can include
a link to your normal blog right at the end of your entry.
Of course, it goes without saying that you will need to make an exceptionally
compelling case for why the blogger should allow you to do this.
If you already have a high-quality blog and have spent a good deal of time following
and commenting on the blog whose owner you are attempting to solicit, then your
chances of success are naturally significantly higher.
Additionally, if you are flexible and are willing to accept whatever other terms the
blogger imposes on you, your chances of acceptance will also improve.
Strategy #2: Look for “Guest Blogger” Opportunities
Occasionally, bloggers will attempt to actively solicit guest bloggers. For this reason,
it is always a good idea to follow dozens of different blogs through your RSS feed
reader (and occasionally by visiting them), even if you have no intention of
commenting on 80% of them.
If you’re simply following the blogs, you’re already half-finished with the overall task.
It’s now just a matter of capturing guest blogging opportunities as soon as they are
presented to you.
So, next time you see a blogger mention that a new “guest blogger” position is
available, email them and be sure to say the following:
1. Casually mention things about her blog, so that they understand that
you follow it regularly. This can be as simple as mentioning that you have
followed it for months already. You may also want to reference one of her
previous posts to further reinforce this point.
2. Explain that you are an experienced blogger; and that you have a past
record of great success.
3. Offer to provide additional samples of your work or to complete any trial
projects if required.
Overall, you will find that if you are polite and thoughtful with your letter and you
make a point to communicate that you have experience, that you understand the
blog’s subject matter, and that you will complete good work, you have a decent
chance of being selected.
Strategy #3: Offer to Do a One-Time Blog Exchange
If you’re having a hard time finding available guest blogging opportunities, it may be
a good idea to consider a guest blogging exchange instead. Here, you would allow
someone else to post on your blog, in exchange for being able to post on theirs.
When using this approach, there are two rules you must keep in mind:
1. If you make this offer to a competing blog, only offer it if they have a larger
readership then you. You don’t want to directly expose your current blog
visitors and commenters to a competing blog, unless they can offer you
something of equal or better value in exchange (i.e. access to a larger
audience).
2. Explicitly seek out blogs that naturally complement your own.
For example: If your blog is about self improvement to achieve success in life, then
consider seeking out an exchange with an equally motivational blogger. You could
provide useful entries for each other’s blogs and possibly encourage visitors to cross
over to both blogs, without picking one over the other.
If you keep these two rules in mind, the only challenge you will face is finding other
bloggers willing to participate in the exchange.
However, if you look hard enough, and send out enough emails, you should be pretty
successful.
One of the better ways to drive traffic to your blog is to post as a “guest blogger” on
someone else’s blog. While this may initially seem difficult to do, there are many
viable strategies to overcome this challenge.
At least one of the three I covered above should work for you.
3. Turn The Articles Into A Report
Another way of recycling your quality articles is by turning them into a short report
and then give it away for free.
To do this, just compile a few good articles and title the report. For instance, you
compile 5 articles of self-improvement and you can name it as “5 Secrets To
Becoming A Millionaire”.
Once you have it laid out as a report, you can give this away for free to anyone.
Take action and complete the task in week #2. Once completed, you will now start to
make some money online.
You can give this report as a free gift, or a “bribe” to get subscribers… (Read the
next chapter)
Building A Mailing List
If you want to learn a more “advanced” method, then this next chapter is for you.
This “advanced” method is optional, meaning, you can start to make money online in
the first 2 weeks without using this method. If your goal is just to make 'some' money
online, the earlier methods would be good enough on their own. But if you want to
build a sustainable income stream, it’s good to get into this model early.
This is the method to make $1,000’s in the future.
Owning A Mailing List
If you don’t know what a mailing list is, it probably means that you have your own
subscribers (their emails) in your list. When you have your own subscribers, you can
send emails to them at ANYTIME you want, with just a click of a button.
Including sending a promotion of WakeUpMillionaire.com to them.
Of course, your subscribers will be those who are interested in self-improvement.
Please note that they are all real humans behind all the emails, so treat your mailing
list nicely, without spamming them.
Here are the benefits that you can gain with a mailing list:
1. Normally, a person who saw a product for the first time will not buy the product.
But with a mailing list, you can regularly promote WakeUp Millionaire several times to
them. By promoting it several times, it will increase the likelihood of any sales.
2 . Having a mailing list is not just about promoting your list. You should also promote
your unique content to them. For instance, when you have a new article to go live on
your blog, you can promote it to your list about an update of your blog. This will help
you to keep receiving repeat visitors and make your blog more successful.
3 . If you’re persistent enough, and your blog becomes even more successful in the
future, you can start to create a more lucrative income stream by writing your very
own books. You can also create your own products that people need, and start to sell
them to your mailing list.
See also: Own a mailing list through squeeze page
Go back to previous page
talents on other websites.
In particular, if you can find a way to demonstrate to others that you are capable of
providing high-quality blog posts, there’s a very good chance they’ll follow you back
to your blog and subsequently subscribe to your RSS feed.
It’s obvious then, that a good way to attract more visitors, commenters, and
subscribers on your blog is to borrow someone else’s blog (and their user base).
In the past, this wasn’t an easy thing to do, but today, it has become quite popular. I
suggest that you use the following 3 strategies to become a guest blogger.
Strategy #1: Pitch to High-Profile Bloggers
Many site owners and bloggers alike want good content. The problem is that good
content is usually either time-consuming or quite expensive for them to produce.
Thus, they face a trade-off when it comes to providing high-quality content: they can
either update the blog less frequently than they would like; or they can update it
regularly, but they'lldo so at a cost (perhaps by either not doing other things or
paying someone to update it).
This is where YOU come in.
You can offer to provide a completely free guest blog entry, as long as you are able
to list yourself as the “guest blogger”. Additionally, if possible, see if you can include
a link to your normal blog right at the end of your entry.
Of course, it goes without saying that you will need to make an exceptionally
compelling case for why the blogger should allow you to do this.
If you already have a high-quality blog and have spent a good deal of time following
and commenting on the blog whose owner you are attempting to solicit, then your
chances of success are naturally significantly higher.
Additionally, if you are flexible and are willing to accept whatever other terms the
blogger imposes on you, your chances of acceptance will also improve.
Strategy #2: Look for “Guest Blogger” Opportunities
Occasionally, bloggers will attempt to actively solicit guest bloggers. For this reason,
it is always a good idea to follow dozens of different blogs through your RSS feed
reader (and occasionally by visiting them), even if you have no intention of
commenting on 80% of them.
If you’re simply following the blogs, you’re already half-finished with the overall task.
It’s now just a matter of capturing guest blogging opportunities as soon as they are
presented to you.
So, next time you see a blogger mention that a new “guest blogger” position is
available, email them and be sure to say the following:
1. Casually mention things about her blog, so that they understand that
you follow it regularly. This can be as simple as mentioning that you have
followed it for months already. You may also want to reference one of her
previous posts to further reinforce this point.
2. Explain that you are an experienced blogger; and that you have a past
record of great success.
3. Offer to provide additional samples of your work or to complete any trial
projects if required.
Overall, you will find that if you are polite and thoughtful with your letter and you
make a point to communicate that you have experience, that you understand the
blog’s subject matter, and that you will complete good work, you have a decent
chance of being selected.
Strategy #3: Offer to Do a One-Time Blog Exchange
If you’re having a hard time finding available guest blogging opportunities, it may be
a good idea to consider a guest blogging exchange instead. Here, you would allow
someone else to post on your blog, in exchange for being able to post on theirs.
When using this approach, there are two rules you must keep in mind:
1. If you make this offer to a competing blog, only offer it if they have a larger
readership then you. You don’t want to directly expose your current blog
visitors and commenters to a competing blog, unless they can offer you
something of equal or better value in exchange (i.e. access to a larger
audience).
2. Explicitly seek out blogs that naturally complement your own.
For example: If your blog is about self improvement to achieve success in life, then
consider seeking out an exchange with an equally motivational blogger. You could
provide useful entries for each other’s blogs and possibly encourage visitors to cross
over to both blogs, without picking one over the other.
If you keep these two rules in mind, the only challenge you will face is finding other
bloggers willing to participate in the exchange.
However, if you look hard enough, and send out enough emails, you should be pretty
successful.
One of the better ways to drive traffic to your blog is to post as a “guest blogger” on
someone else’s blog. While this may initially seem difficult to do, there are many
viable strategies to overcome this challenge.
At least one of the three I covered above should work for you.
3. Turn The Articles Into A Report
Another way of recycling your quality articles is by turning them into a short report
and then give it away for free.
To do this, just compile a few good articles and title the report. For instance, you
compile 5 articles of self-improvement and you can name it as “5 Secrets To
Becoming A Millionaire”.
Once you have it laid out as a report, you can give this away for free to anyone.
Take action and complete the task in week #2. Once completed, you will now start to
make some money online.
You can give this report as a free gift, or a “bribe” to get subscribers… (Read the
next chapter)
Building A Mailing List
If you want to learn a more “advanced” method, then this next chapter is for you.
This “advanced” method is optional, meaning, you can start to make money online in
the first 2 weeks without using this method. If your goal is just to make 'some' money
online, the earlier methods would be good enough on their own. But if you want to
build a sustainable income stream, it’s good to get into this model early.
This is the method to make $1,000’s in the future.
Owning A Mailing List
If you don’t know what a mailing list is, it probably means that you have your own
subscribers (their emails) in your list. When you have your own subscribers, you can
send emails to them at ANYTIME you want, with just a click of a button.
Including sending a promotion of WakeUpMillionaire.com to them.
Of course, your subscribers will be those who are interested in self-improvement.
Please note that they are all real humans behind all the emails, so treat your mailing
list nicely, without spamming them.
Here are the benefits that you can gain with a mailing list:
1. Normally, a person who saw a product for the first time will not buy the product.
But with a mailing list, you can regularly promote WakeUp Millionaire several times to
them. By promoting it several times, it will increase the likelihood of any sales.
2 . Having a mailing list is not just about promoting your list. You should also promote
your unique content to them. For instance, when you have a new article to go live on
your blog, you can promote it to your list about an update of your blog. This will help
you to keep receiving repeat visitors and make your blog more successful.
3 . If you’re persistent enough, and your blog becomes even more successful in the
future, you can start to create a more lucrative income stream by writing your very
own books. You can also create your own products that people need, and start to sell
them to your mailing list.
See also: Own a mailing list through squeeze page
Go back to previous page
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